Trudeaumania

Tall and trim, Trudeau channeled the star power - if not quite the political heft - of his father, Pierre Trudeau, who swept to power in 1968 on a wave of support dubbed “Trudeaumania.”

Tall and trim, Trudeau channeled the star power — if not quite the political heft — of his father, Pierre Trudeau, who swept to power in 1968 on a wave of support dubbed “Trudeaumania.”

Much has changed since Trudeau resurrected the moribund Liberals and swept to power in 2015 on a wave of adulation much like the Trudeaumania that his father, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, generated several decades earlier.

The world sat up and took notice, in part because Trudeau’s famous father, Pierre, had been swept to power in a similar fashion in 1968 amid a wave of what was known as Trudeaumania.

As I’ve written before, the country has gone from Trudeaumania to Trudea-meh-nia.